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Another Serena-Less "Slam": Who Will Capitalize at the Australian Open?
For the second consecutive major, Serena Williams will be a no-show. With the two time defending champion and former world number one still injured, current world number one Caroline Wozniacki should technically be "the" favorite. While Wozniacki is a certain contender for the crown Down Under, it's difficult to position her in the number one spot. With her victories at the U.S. Open and the WTA championships to finish 2010, Kim Clijsters has to be viewed as the outright favorite. The way the Australian Open draw stacks up, Clijsters has to relish her chances. Let's take a look how it breaks down.
Imagine needing to conquer Gisela Dulko in the first round, Dominika Cibulkova in the third round and either Justine Henin or Francesca Schiavone just to get to the quarterfinals. This is the precise task which probably awaits Wozniacki. Moreover, in the semifinals, the Dane could clash with either Venus, whom she has never beaten, Victoria Azarenka or Maria Sharapova. In light of the treacherous road ahead, Wozniacki has her work cut out for her in trying to survive the first week and retain the number one ranking.
Since her 2010 Wimbledon injury, this will be Henin's first major. After months of noncompetitive play, Henin performed well at the Hopman Cup. In Melbourne, a possible third round encounter with Svetlana Kuznetsova will be her first true challenge. Last year, Henin battled her way to the final after an almost two year sabbatical. Consequently, if the Belgian successfully navigates the first week, she could duplicate her feat of a year ago.
If healthy, Venus should reach the round of 16 with ease. At that stage, the 2003 Australian Open finalist could be tested, if the draw holds true to form, by the 2008 Australian Open champion, Sharapova. The Russian's last major was in Melbourne. Subsequent to shoulder surgery a couple of years ago, Sharapova appears finally at full steam. That type of encounter could be a shot in the arm for Sharapova and push her back into the top ten.
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Slovak Republic Shocks Russian Siblings To Seize Hopman Cup
At the XXI Hyundai Hopman Cup, a tournament celebrating mixed doubles play, Slovakians Dominik Hrbaty and Dominika Cibulkova surprised the brother and sister team of Marat Safin and Dinara Safina to win that country's third trophy in Perth, Australia. In the first match, Cibulkova, undefeated in singles this week, beat Safina for the first time in her career 6-7, 6-1, 6-4 while Hrbaty prevailed in the second rubber against Safin 6-7, 7-5, 7-6.
Nineteen year-old Cibulkova, also the world number 19, was aggressive from the first ball strike against world number 3, Safina. With the score tied at 2 in the first set, Cibulkova smoked a backhand down the line, which resulted in an unforced error from Safina for break point. With Dinara unable to dig out a low volley, Dominika pocketed the break. However, Safina quickly bounced back to square the set at 3 all. The Russian then held serve easily for 5-4 and had triple break point. But, with great defense and a few unforced errors from her opponent, the Slovakian escaped. The set was ultimately settled in a tiebreak. After Cibulkova gifted Safina a minibreak by missing an easy forehand volley, she gift-wrapped the set for Safina with a double fault.
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Broadway-Sidney option still a groaner
PUBLISHED: August 1, 2017 at 1:59 p.m. | UPDATED: May 16, 2019 at 6:13 a.m.
A CDOT drawing of S-curve alignment.
By Jeff Rice
The dipsy-doodle diversion of traffic off of eastbound Broadway at Sidney Avenue is still the most unpopular part of the proposed S-curve project in Sterling.
Colorado Department of Transportation representatives presented the latest plans to a standing-room-only crowd in the Sterling Public Library's meeting room Thursday, July 27, and when CDOT's Joel McCracken showed the proposed traffic pattern for eastbound traffic from Broadway onto Highway 138 out of Sterling, a groan went up from the audience.
According to the plan, because Third and Fourth Streets will revert from one-way to two-way streets, eastbound traffic on Broadway will have to turn south onto Sidney Avenue and then double back northeasterly onto Third Street and out onto 138.
McCracken explained there just isn't a safe way to continue eastbound Broadway traffic past what is now Baja Tacos and cross against southbound traffic that will be exiting 138 onto southbound Third Street.
Joel McCracken of CDOT explains how the state highways will be re-aligned in Sterling as part of the "S-curve" project during an open house presentation Thursday, July 27, at the Sterling Public Library.
After the meeting, several people approached McCracken to suggest alternatives but Jeff Vickers, a CDOT engineer who works with McCracken, said alternatives have been examined and rejected because of cost. The project, which started out as a $6 million alignment of Chestnut Street and West Main via an abandoned railroad right of way, has grown to $20 million as new elements were added.
The main purpose of the project, McCracken said, is still to keep truck traffic out of downtown and make the downtown area more attractive for re-development. That should all but eliminate heavy truck traffic from about eight blocks of downtown Sterling.
The project will make it easier on truckers as well, giving them easier transitions through the city. That's why the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Freight Program has kicked in $7.5 million for the project.
"The (NHFP's) purpose is to improve efficiency along the national highway freight network, Vickers said. "They thought this project met their criteria and their purposes."
Besides building a new street diagonally from the intersection of Fourth and Chestnut streets to the intersection of Main and West Main streets and Division Avenue, the project still includes:
* Aligning U.S. 138 only on Third Street, both north and southbound;
* Re-aligning U.S. 6 South from Third Street over to Division Ave. to join the S-Curve and continue on out Chestnut St. as U.S. 6 East;
* The intersection at Fourth and Chestnut will allow right-turn options so traffic won't be truncated in cul-de-sacs on either side of the S-Curve;
* The Third and Chestnut intersection will be re-shaped to allow trucks to turn in all directions in one lane instead of needing two;
* Traffic signals at Fourth and Main, Third and Main, and at Third and Poplar will be eliminated.
* The West Main-Main Street-S-Curve intersection will be re-designed so traffic can go through it on Division Avenue both directions;
* Third and Fourth streets both will be one lane each direction plus a turn lane in the center.
* Southbound traffic from U.S. 138 will be directed onto Third Street with a "slip lane" that allows traffic to continue west on Broadway;
* Eastbound Broadway traffic wanting to access U.S. 138 will have to turn right onto southbound Sidney Avenue, then back left onto northbound Third/U.S. 138;
* That part of West Main that was not rebuilt and resurfaced over the past two years will be rebuilt as part of this project, and CDOT is proposing continuing the raised medians all the way to the S-Curve.
CDOT also will fund rebuilding as much as three miles of U.S. 138. The original plan was to rebuild to the 1-mile marker but Vickers said funding now will allow as far as the 3-mile marker, or about where the four-lane narrows to two-lane.
The CDOT representatives were asked whether making Third and Fourth streets two-way again would allow for diagonal parking along them, especially around the Logan County Courthouse. McCracken said that would be a possibility, but it would be up to the City of Sterling, since the city will be taking over control of those streets.
Construction on the project should begin in the first quarter of 2019, McCracken said, and be finished by the summer of 2021.
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Q: Using while loop to add elements in a list without overwriting previous elements I'm working with events and database classes.
I created a while loop that will keep appending my event (objects) in my database.
Also there is a command that will keep running in the if main block as long as the user doesn't type the command "exit".
My problem is that whenever the command asks for an event to be added, the previous gets erased per iteration.
The word "event" acts like the command "exit" So whenever this word is typed along with an event string (I've already implemented a function that will convert event strings to event objects). It will keep adding an event object into the Database.
def parse(command):
    '''Parse a command string.'''
# gist of event class Event(description, time, date, duration) not part of this function event string could be: '"Movie night" today 10:00pm'

    store_event = Database() # where I should save my event objects
    cmd_str = command.split()
    a_lst =[]

    while cmd_str[0] == "event": #while event is a command that the user wants
        cmd_str = command.split()
        cmd_str.pop(0) # I don't need the word "event" just the event string after it.
        new_str = ' '.join(cmd_str)
        an_event = parseevent(new_str) # converts string object to event objects
        a_lst.append(an_event)

Thanks!

A: I think you want to do that:
def parse(command, a_lst):
    '''Parse a command string.'''
    a,b = command.split(None,1)
    if a == "event":
        a_lst.append(b)

store_event = Database() # where I should save my event objects
parse('event blahblahbla',store_event)
parse('event youtchouiya',store_event)
parse('event print ramantiyi',store_event)
parse('event import re',store_event)
# etc etc

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Test your knowledge of southern Africa and it's wildlife. When you have finished all the questions, click on the down arrow of the answer box opposite your answers to see if your answer is correct . If you want to re-test yourself, press the reset button at the bottom to clear your answers. Enjoy.
1. The difference between "true eagles" and "snake eagles" is the eye colour.
Click here for your answer.... False - true eagles have fully feathered legs, snake eagles do not.
2. The Martial eagle is the most powerful eagle in Southern Africa.
Click here for your answer.... False: it is the largest but the Crowned eagle is the most powerful.
3. Impala are spectacular jumpers leaping as much as 3 metres in height and 11 metres in length.
Click here for your answer.... True.
4. At least half the snake species in southern Africa can cause death (of people).
Click here for your answer.... False: Only 14 out of 131 species have caused death. Another 18 species are considered dangerous.
5. The cat species (felidae) generally have a shorter gestation period than the dogs (canidae).
6. The fever tree (Acacia Xanthophloea) was so named because people camping under them frequently got sick.
Click here for your answer.... True: but the tree was not the cause of sickness - it was mosquitoes. In fact the tree's bark contains quinine - the cure.
7. The sap or latex of the common tree euphorbia is used to catch fish.
Click here for your answer.... True. Grass coated with the poisonous latex is put into the water to stun the fish!
8. The secretary bird usually stamps its prey to death.
Click here for your answer.... True: they stamp hard on prey such as lizards mice and even snakes.
9. A male giraffe can grow to a height of as much as 5.5 metres.
10. Only the alpha male and female wild dog normally breed, but all pack members will help look after the pups.
11. Which of the following are found in both East and Southern Africa: Springbok, Thompson's gazelle, Burchell's zebra, impala, Grevy's zebra, steenbok.
12. Some animals are loners, others live in groups. Which of the following are generally solitary: lion, civet, banded mongoose, leopard, spotted hyaena, caracal, large spotted genet.
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Bugatti Chiron vs. F1 Car Is a Closer Drag Race Than You'd Expect
The most extreme road car of 2021 and the fastest F1 car of 2011 are very different machines, but both share a common goal.
By James Gilboy June 28, 2021
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The 2021 Bugatti Chiron and a Red Bull Formula One car may both be vehicles at the pinnacle of performance, but they couldn't be more different from one another. The former is a record-breaking luxury car, while the latter is a championship-winning racer whose only luxuries are a form-fitted seat and a removable steering wheel. Throw them head-to-head in a race like Carwow did, though, and you'll find they have one thing in common: They're both brutally fast.
Organizing this clash of titans required both bringing in a Chiron owner and sourcing an F1 car, in this case Red Bull Racing's RB7. The RB7 went almost unchallenged across the 2011 F1 season, securing both the constructors' and drivers' championships, in small part thanks to its 2.4-liter, naturally aspirated Renault V8—not a Honda as its livery suggests. Revving to 18,000 rpm, this hybrid V8 generated around 750 horsepower, which it sent through a paddle-shifted seven-speed transmission to the rear wheels.
Bugatti Chiron races a 2011 Red Bull Racing RB7 F1 car
By contrast, the Bugatti utilizes an 8.0-liter, quad-turbo W16, which in even the cheapest of the $3 million-plus Chirons makes 1,500 horsepower and 1,180 pound-feet of torque. It too sends these through a seven-speed to the wheels, in this case all four, making this showdown sound preordained in the Bugatti's favor. But we wouldn't be here watching it if it were.
Carwow showcased both cars' full abilities to go and stop in a 100-mph braking test, a rolling full-mile drag, and the traditional standing quarter, in which the F1 car proved the surprising victor. Despite its rear-wheel drive, its weight advantage of more than a ton allowed former Red Bull F1 driver and current hypercar aficionado David Coulthard to drive it to a three-nothing victory against the Bugatti, completing the quarter in 9.2 seconds to the Chiron's 9.6.
Unsurprisingly, the lighter, slick tire-shod race car triumphed in the braking test too, halting well ahead of the hypercar despite locking up its cold tires. It wasn't a three-nothing rout for Red Bull, though, as the Bugatti clawed back some dignity in the rolling mile. There, the F1 car's short gearing and high drag held it back, and allowed the slicker, 261 mph-capable Chiron to reel it in.
As comparison tests go, it's not exactly the most enlightening, as almost no-one watching these races has any point of reference to help them understand how quick these cars are. But there are some things in this world of such obviously inherent value that it doesn't take an expert to appreciate them, and if the smile of host Mat Watson is anything to go by, this is one of them.
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Simon & Garfunkel are an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon and Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sounds of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.


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Shay Mitchell Defends Going to Drake's Birthday Party After Giving Birth to Daughter: 'People Are Really Upset'
By Riley Cardoza
Here comes the parenting police! Shay Mitchell announced her daughter's birth on October 20 and is already defending her parenting skills.
Celeb Moms Clap Back at the Parenting Police
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"I haven't been really checking my comments that often, but apparently people are really upset that I left three days after having a kid to go out and party," the Pretty Little Liars alum, 32, said on her Tuesday, October 29, Instagram Story. "It wasn't three days and she was with [my dog] Angel, so…"
In the footage, the actress scrolled through negative comments, reading, "Wait. So you literally just had her and you're more worried about clubbing with Drake? Wooow," and, "Mother of the year award right here!!!! As if you seriously could leave your baby to go party?!!! I hope the child's aid look into this and your abilities to be a good parent cause damn!!! Lacking some serious skills there sweety! #selfish."
Courtesy of Shay Mitchell/Instagram
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The Bliss author responded to one of the haters, who called her "disgusting" for attending Drake's 33rd birthday party "only days after her birth" on October 23. "Days?" Mitchell replied. "Lol honey, just because I posted on that day doesn't mean she was born on that day."
She and her boyfriend, Matte Babel, had "so much fun" celebrating the rapper's birthday, a source told Us Weekly exclusively at the time. "Shay looked absolutely amazing, definitely not like she had just given birth," the insider said. "She was dancing and living her best life."
The Beís Travel creator posted a video from the bash to her Instagram Story last week, captioned, "Parents."
This footage came three days after Mitchell shared her 33-hour labor and delivery on her YouTube show, Almost Ready. "Oh, it's so crazy," the Dollface star said the moment she held her infant in her arms for the first time.
She and Babel, 39, announced in June that they were expecting their first child after suffering a miscarriage in 2018. Mitchell told Us exclusively the following month how the music journalist was doting on her.
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"[He gives] massages," she said. "Not very long ones, but I'll take them when I can get them. He's … supporting my wants to continue working throughout this whole process, so that's always good."


With all of today's home-based tech gadgets and virtual personal assistants, smart homes are quickly becoming ubiquitous. And with high demand for connected products, so too comes ease of use, accessibility and affordability.
But as with all expenses, it's important to budget for smart tech upgrades to your abode. Luckily, it's easier (and more affordable) than it's ever been. Here, we explore some of the more common smart home tech investments, along with a few things to consider when deciding whether they're worth the cash.
These devices use natural language processing (NLP) to match a user's voice commands and execute an action, like "Turn off the lights." Many of these voice assistants use a "wake word," like the name of the device ("Hey Google," for example) in order to alert the assistant so that it's ready to listen to you.
From online shopping to reading your email for you, virtual voice assistants have the potential to do a myriad of helpful things around your home.
Major Brands: The top players in the virtual voice assistant arena are Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Homepod, Microsoft's Cortana and Google's Home — but the list is growing. It's been reported that Facebook may be working with Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri to create its own smart speaker in this burgeoning market.
Average Price Range: The most basic versions, like Amazon's Echo Dot, can start at as little as about $50, while more mid-range devices go for about $130 (Google's Home) and high-range assistants like Apple's Homepod go for $349.
Life Expectancy: While it's hard to predict how long these up-and-coming tech devices will last, it's safe to say that there will be plenty of similar products for a long time to come. Not only that, but virtual assistants will likely continue to improve significantly when it comes to their capabilities, connectivity and affordability. To put things into perspective, it took 13 years for the television to reach 50 million Americans but only two for smart speakers to do the same thing.
Is it Worth It? It depends on how (and how much) you'll be using the device. If you call on your virtual voice assistant at every whim, the upfront cost may be well worth the convenience. On the other hand, a 2017 Ovum survey of both U.S. and U.K. residents said that about 50 percent of users don't find virtual assistants useful. Though it's difficult to narrow down the reasons why, it's a clear message to manufacturers that they need to up their game to stay competitive.
Intelligent heating and cooling systems have taken the tech world by storm, particularly due to their affordability and savings potential. These smart thermostats learn users' habits — when they leave for and come home — to optimize in-home temperatures in a way that traditional thermostats can't. After all, if you're going away on vacation, there's no need to leave your AC on the whole time, but you might want to turn it up an hour or two before you return. Cue smart thermostats.
Major Brands: There's a lot to choose from when it comes to intelligent thermostat needs. Popular brands include Ecobee4, Nest Learning Thermostat, Lux/Geo Wi-Fi Thermostat, Lux Kono Smart Thermostat, Bosch Connected Control BCC100 Thermostat and Honeywell Lyric T5 Wi-Fi Thermostat.
Average Price Range: While you can find some smart thermostats for under $100, most range from about $170 to $260, depending on their uses and features. Some cost as much as $500.
Life Expectancy: Intelligent thermostats have the potential to last just as long as traditional thermostats, as long as you maintain them correctly and don't misuse them. However, it's important to note that some smart thermostats are hardwired into your home while others aren't. If yours operate on battery power, it could last a full two years before needing new batteries — but always pay attention when your thermostat alerts that its batteries are low.
Is it Worth It? Not only are smart thermostats extremely convenient, they also have massive potential for saving you some cash on utilities. While the upfront cost may be a bit hefty, smart thermostats often pay for themselves in the long run. The Energy Star program states that homes equipped with smart thermostats can save up to $180 per year on heating and cooling. What's more, intelligent thermostats can provide you with reports that show you how to optimize your heating and cooling settings to save even more money.
Yep, even light bulbs are getting smarter these days — and not just in the "clap on, clap off!" way, either. With smart LEDs, you can connect all the light fixtures in your home to your virtual voice assistant or smartphone to control individual lights in every room. Not only is this super handy, but it can also provide an extra layer of security if, say, you're out of town and want to randomly turn lights on and off so it appears that someone's home. Plus, color-changing bulbs make for great mood lighting and can even sync up to music and movies for extra effect.
Major Brands: Though brand doesn't matter as much when it comes to intelligent light bulbs, popular bulbs include the Philips Hue White, Philips Hue White and Color Ambience A19 Star, C by GE Starter Pack, Cree Connected Light Bulb, Eufy Lumos Smart Bulb White, LIFX Color 1000, Ikea Tradfri Gateway Kit and MiPow Playbulb Rainbow.
Average Price Range: While you can find affordable options under $20, some intelligent light bulb kits cost upward of $200, depending on the number of bulbs and features included.
Life Expectancy: Regardless of price, the vast majority of smart LEDs have a lifespan greater than 20 years. That's anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 hours — or up to five times longer than any other light bulb in stores today. Compare that to the measly 1,200 hours of an average incandescent light bulb, or a CFL's 8,000 hours.
Is it Worth It? Even if you do decide to outfit your home with a $200 smart light bulb kit, it's arguably still worth it. They last practically forever, they can help keep your home safer, you can control them from your smart device from anywhere you have internet access, and they're better for the environment than traditional bulbs.
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Did Macy's Sell Fake Rubies and Fake Diamonds?
As we approach Christmas, many people will stroll though Macy's stores and pass by the beautifully displayed gemstones. Sitting under glass with lots of reflecting light you will find rubies, diamonds, sapphires and other prized stones. Stuck way out of the way in some stores is a little card that tells you that what you see is not really the real thing.
That you are not buying a natural product but likely paying for the real thing.
Stated another way, what you may be buying is not a natural ruby but a composite filled with lead glass or a diamond that has been treated. Be careful, ask if it is the real thing and make sure you don't pay a price based on the item being the real thing — no matter how steep the discount or "how good the deal".
Diamonds were irradiated or heated to induce color and then represented to be natural black diamonds.
On two separate occasions on each coast of our country television crews have gone into Macy's and found significant instances where Macy's was not quite telling the whole truth about their jewelry. The first was Good Morning America. (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/ConsumerNews/rubies-real-deal/story?id=8988951).
"We identified the presence of lead within the glass, which is conclusive proof of this material," Smith said. The three rings in question were from three different Macy's stores in the New York area.
The second neutral inspection was from Channel 5 KPIX in San Francisco who aired a program showing the same thing in Macy's Stores in the Bay Area on Super Bowl Sunday 2011.
If you purchased fine jewelry, rubies, diamonds, sapphires or other gemstones from Macy's anywhere in the US since 2006, you may have a claim. To find out more about these issues, whether you are in New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Seattle, Miami, or parts between, please visit the Brandi Law Firm Macy's Lawsuit website or contact the Brandi Law Firm Consumer Fraud Attorneys.
We are representing a group of people who bought what they were told were the real things, natural rubies, diamonds, etc., paid real prices, only to later learn their jewelry was not real and worth only a fraction of their purchase price.
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» A POEM FROM M.
No huge hall, no crowds of strangers.
No one judges, no one stares.
A cup of tea, a gentle smile.
A welcome, comfort, safe and warm.
When I'm ready, if I want to.
Help is there but never forced.
All are normal – understood.
Young to old we join together.
Working on a sense of 'self'.
At a lonely, hopeless time.


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How Designers Dress
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by Jim Shi
Todd Snyder on casual ties
"To me, the tie has become the accessory of choice these days," says Todd Snyder, a menswear designer who learned a thing or two about neckwear while working at Polo Ralph Lauren, Gap, and J.Crew. A once strictly formal accessory, ties are being treated as an opportunity for self expression. For his part, Snyder, who recently launched his first collaboration with iconic sportswear brand Champion, likes pairing a tie with a leather jacket for a James Dean-cum-Preppy Handbook aesthetic.
"Mixing up worlds à la a biker or aviator jacket, a denim jacket or great military field jacket with a tie is cool," he says. "It's become a go-to item for the season – and for the last couple of seasons, but how you mix it today is what makes it interesting."
Today's ties are a bit narrower, and Snyder likes mixing the tailored – think wool flannel and solid ties and simple Repp ties – with outerwear and cardigans. "That's the trick, it's almost like 'Mad Men' without the sport coat," he says. "Loosen up the knot. The whole idea is the casualness of it; [this] is what you're trying to capture."
Since we're living in looser times, jackets don't necessarily dictate the types of ties worn with them anymore. But simplicity is still key. "You can do a knit tie across the board," says Snyder. "It's the most universally adaptable and updates any look."


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University of California Transportation Center
Suburban Traffic Congestion, Land Use and Transportation Planning Issues: Public Policy Options
Author(s): Deakin, Elizabeth
Traffic congestion has reemerged in the 1980's as a leading public concern. In metropolitan areas throughout the United States, reports about mounting traffic levels and daily tie-ups appear on a regular basis. Highway agencies and transit operators are castigated for failing to provide the facilities and services needed to assure a convenient commute. The agencies, in turn, point to funding cutbacks and escalating costs as barriers to action. Urbanists and demographers note that long-term trends toward decentralized development and increased participation in the work force have both contributed to congestion. Increasingly, angry citizens are blaming new development for the traffic problems and are pressuring local officials to either slow growth or find some other way to relieve the traffic loads.
Congestion problems are not, of course, a new phenomenon. For many decades, heavy traffic has been a fact of life in central business districts and on routes leading downtown. Today, however, in an increasing number of communities, the rush hour has become a two or three hour peak period, and congestion recurs mornings, midday, midevening, and on weekends as well. Heavy congestion is occurring in the suburbs as well as the city, both on local streets and on the circumferential highways that a decade ago provided for high speed travel.
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Wachs, Martin


Chuka-soba: so important in the history of ramen in Japan, yet so underrepresented in the world of ramen. You'll hear more about Ichiran ramen, or Ippudo, or Momofuko even, but Chukasoba? Barely at all. Hell, I only heard about it a couple of months ago after living in Japan for over a year and a half. I'm glad we got the chance to try this out and to learn a little more about where ramen in Japan comes from.
From all that we've read and have been told, ramen came to Japan in the early 1900s (some suggest around 1910) from China. At first Chinese style noodles didn't suit the Japanese palette at the time, so they were made thinner and lighter. And at first it was known as Chuka Soba, which literally means Chinese Noodles. Later it was called Shina Soba, which means the same thing. And now it's just called Ramen, though some shops will still call it Chuka Soba, for a sense of historical importance, it seems.
We went to Katsumoto so we could get more of a chance to explore and understand Chuka Soba. And, hell, they do a realllllllly delicious Chuka Soba. This place here takes a lot of time in making their broth, which is why they suggest trying it first before you try the noodles. For starters, the broth is made of Pie Water. Not water from pies, but math π. It's called パイ)ウォーター. You can get more info about π Water here. I'm not literate enough in the sciences to be able to talk about the importance of this water, so maybe one of you here can let me know more about it.
All of the above ingredients are boiled at 90 degrees C for six hours. After six hours, all of the ingredients are removed, then four different types of small dried sardines and giant kelp are added to the remaining broth and boiled for another 2 hours. After two hours, the sardines and kelp are removed and this bombastic consommé is left over.
Yeah I realize that was a lot of information to give about the broth, but it gives me a better understanding of how much work goes into a ramen. We've been thinking about making a Martina's Midnight Munchies for ramen, but if we want to make something really good, it'll take soooooo long. Once we find an easier recipe to make, we'll share that.
Otherwise, for the sake of transparency, this video was paid for by Katsumoto. And what that means isn't that our opinions are paid for. Just our time. If we don't like a place, we turn down payment from them and don't do a video. If we do like a place, we'll spend a lot more time doing research on it, bring in more help to shoot the video, and get some extra help with editing it as well. Even the salarymen in the video are friends of ours to come help with the shoot (in case you were worried that we were bothering other customers there). In this case, the Chuka-soba at Katsumoto is actually delicious and worth sharing. And that's important to say because oftentimes I'm bored by Shoyu ramen. We even went to a famous place in Kyoto, where our friend said he takes the Shinkansen to get there just for the ramen (no joke). We filmed something there, but we didn't like it all too much, and so we didn't share the video. But this place, the Chuka-soba is worth the trip.
So, I hope you give Katsumoto a chance and try out some authentic Chuka-soba. You can find them on Tabelog if you want to read more about it. It's located in Suidobashi, which is on the yellow Chuo line. The address is 2-15-5 Misakicho Chiyoda Tokyo, or 東京都 千代田区 三崎町 2-15-5 in Japanese. And, on a less serious note, here are some extra scenes that didn't make the final cut!
Hi again guys, thanks for interesting videos. I'm enjoying all of them.
It's much different from regular Ramen and probably hard to find a restaurant but I'd love for you to try. Kyo fu ramen is absolutely my favorite. The noodles are super thin and it's super light.
Hi Simon and Martina! Me and my girlfriend are in tokyo on vacation, we just saw this video two days ago and went to eat there… it was delicious!!! We are planning on visiting some other places in your videos :D!
I had chuka soba at least once when I was living in Japan. I went to a ramen place and chuka soba was the cheapest one and I just went like "it's China something, whatever that means." Then got really confused because I expected soba noodles… But it all makes sense now!! haha Maybe because it was quite cheap the broth was too fishy for my taste but I wouldn't mind trying it again!


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package com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Abilities.Common;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.interfaces.ItemPossessor.Expire;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.collections.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Abilities.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Areas.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Behaviors.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.CharClasses.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Commands.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Common.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Exits.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Items.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Libraries.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Locales.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.MOBS.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races.interfaces.*;

import java.util.*;

public class AnimalTrapping extends GatheringSkill
{
	@Override
	public String ID()
	{
		return "AnimalTrapping";
	}

	public AnimalTrapping()
	{
		super();
		displayText=L("You are trapping animals...");
		verb=L("trapping animals");
	}

	private final static String localizedName = CMLib.lang().L("Animal Trapping");

	@Override
	public String name()
	{
		return localizedName;
	}

	private static final String[] triggerStrings =I(new String[] {"ATRAP","ANIMALTRAPPING"});
	@Override
	public String[] triggerStrings()
	{
		return triggerStrings;
	}

	@Override
	public int classificationCode()
	{
		return Ability.ACODE_COMMON_SKILL|Ability.DOMAIN_GATHERINGSKILL;
	}

	// common recipe definition indexes
	protected static final int	RCP_RESOURCE= 0;
	protected static final int	RCP_DOMAIN	= 1;
	protected static final int	RCP_FREQ	= 2;
	protected static final int	RCP_MOB		= 3;

	protected CagedAnimal	found			= null;
	protected String		foundShortName	= "";
	protected Container		cage			= null;

	@Override
	public boolean tick(final Tickable ticking, final int tickID)
	{
		return super.tick(ticking,tickID);
	}

	@Override
	public void unInvoke()
	{
		if((found != null)
		&&(cage != null)
		&&(affected instanceof Room))
		{
			final Room R=(Room)affected;
			R.showHappens(CMMsg.MSG_NOISE, L("@x1 makes a clicking sound.",cage.name()));
			R.addItem(found,Expire.Resource);
			found.setContainer(cage);
			cage.setDoorsNLocks(cage.hasADoor(),false,cage.defaultsClosed(),cage.hasALock(),cage.hasALock(),cage.defaultsLocked());
			found=null;
			cage=null;
		}
		super.unInvoke();
	}

	@Override
	public boolean invoke(final MOB mob, final List<String> commands, final Physical givenTarget, final boolean auto, final int asLevel)
	{
		if(super.checkStop(mob, commands))
			return true;
		verb=L("trapping animals");
		found=null;
		activityRoom=null;
		final Room R=mob.location();
		if(R==null)
			return false;

		if(R.fetchEffect(ID())!=null)
		{
			mob.tell(L("Animal traps have already been set here."));
			return false;
		}

		final Item targetI=super.getTarget(mob, R, givenTarget, commands, Wearable.FILTER_UNWORNONLY);
		if(targetI==null)
			return false;
		final CagedAnimal cI=(CagedAnimal)CMClass.getItem("GenCaged");
		if((!(targetI instanceof Container))
		||(((Container)targetI).containTypes() != (Container.CONTAIN_BODIES|Container.CONTAIN_CAGED))
		||(!(((Container)targetI).canContain(cI)))
		||(!((Container)targetI).hasADoor()))
		{
			mob.tell(L("@x1 is not a proper animal cage!",targetI.name(mob)));
			return false;
		}
		boolean empty=true;
		for(final Item I : ((Container)targetI).getContents())
		{
			if(I instanceof CagedAnimal)
				empty=false;
		}
		if(!empty)
		{
			mob.tell(L("@x1 is not a empty!",targetI.name(mob)));
			return false;
		}
		if(targetI.owner()==mob)
			CMLib.commands().postDrop(mob, targetI, true, false, false);
		if(targetI.owner() != R)
		{
			mob.tell(L("@x1 is not a working!",targetI.name(mob)));
			return false;
		}

		if(!super.invoke(mob,commands,givenTarget,auto,asLevel))
			return false;
		int resourceType=R.myResource();
		if((resourceType&RawMaterial.RESOURCE_MASK)>=RawMaterial.CODES.NAMES().length)
		{
			resourceType=0;
			Log.errOut("AnimalTrapping","Room "+CMLib.map().getExtendedRoomID(R)+" had resource code "+R.myResource());
		}
		final String resourceName = RawMaterial.CODES.NAME(resourceType).toUpperCase();
		final int domainType = R.domainType()&(~Room.INDOORS);
		final String domainName;
		if((R.domainType()&Room.INDOORS)==0)
			domainName = (domainType < Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOOR_DESCS.length) ? Room.DOMAIN_OUTDOOR_DESCS[domainType].toUpperCase() : "";
		else
			domainName = (domainType < Room.DOMAIN_INDOORS_DESCS.length) ? Room.DOMAIN_INDOORS_DESCS[domainType].toUpperCase() : "";
		found=null;
		cage=null;
		if(proficiencyCheck(mob,0,auto))
		{
			final List<List<String>> recipes = loadRecipes("atrapping.txt");
			if((recipes != null)
			&&(recipes.size()>0))
			{
				int totalWeights = 0;
				final List<List<String>> subset=new ArrayList<List<String>>();
				for(final List<String> subl : recipes)
				{
					if(subl.size()<4)
						continue;
					if(subl.get(RCP_RESOURCE).toUpperCase().equals(resourceName)
					&&((subl.get(RCP_DOMAIN).equals("*"))
						||(subl.get(RCP_DOMAIN).equals(domainName))
						||(subl.get(RCP_DOMAIN).equals(R.ID()))))
					{
						subset.add(subl);
						totalWeights += CMath.s_int(subl.get(RCP_FREQ));
					}
				}
				List<String> winl = null;
				if(totalWeights > 0)
				{
					final int winner=CMLib.dice().roll(1, totalWeights, -1);
					int current = 0;
					for(final List<String> subl : subset)
					{
						current += CMath.s_int(subl.get(RCP_FREQ));
						if(winner < current)
						{
							winl = subl;
							break;
						}
					}
					if(winl == null)
						winl=subset.get(subset.size()-1);
				}
				if(winl != null)
				{
					final String mobID = winl.get(RCP_MOB);
					MOB stdM = CMClass.getMOB(mobID);
					if(stdM == null)
						stdM = CMLib.catalog().getCatalogMob(mobID);
					if(stdM == null)
					{
						final Race raceR=CMClass.getRace(mobID);
						if(raceR!=null)
						{
							if(raceR.useRideClass())
								stdM=CMClass.getMOB("GenRideable");
							else
								stdM=CMClass.getMOB("GenMob");
							stdM.setName(CMLib.english().startWithAorAn(raceR.name()));
							stdM.setDisplayText(stdM.Name()+" is here");
							stdM.baseCharStats().setMyRace(raceR);
							stdM.recoverPhyStats();
							stdM.recoverCharStats();
						}
					}
					if(stdM != null)
					{
						MOB genM=stdM;
						if(!genM.isGeneric())
						{
							if(genM.baseCharStats().getMyRace().useRideClass())
								genM=CMClass.getMOB("GenRideable");
							else
								genM=CMClass.getMOB("GenMob");
							genM.setBaseCharStats((CharStats)stdM.baseCharStats().copyOf());
							genM.setBasePhyStats((PhyStats)stdM.basePhyStats().copyOf());
							genM.setBaseState((CharState)stdM.baseState().copyOf());
							for(final GenericBuilder.GenMOBCode stat : GenericBuilder.GenMOBCode.values())
							{
								if(stat != GenericBuilder.GenMOBCode.ABILITY) // because this screws up gen hit points
									genM.setStat(stat.name(), CMLib.coffeeMaker().getGenMobStat(stdM,stat.name()));
							}
							genM.basePhyStats().setRejuv(0);
							genM.recoverCharStats();
							genM.recoverPhyStats();
							genM.recoverMaxState();
							genM.resetToMaxState();
						}
						final int moblevel = Math.round(CMath.sqrt(mob.phyStats().level())); // pity on artisans
						final int addlevel = (moblevel < CMProps.getIntVar(CMProps.Int.EXPRATE)) ? 0 : (moblevel - CMProps.getIntVar(CMProps.Int.EXPRATE));
						genM.basePhyStats().setLevel(genM.basePhyStats().level() + addlevel);
						genM.basePhyStats().setRejuv(0);
						genM.recoverCharStats();
						genM.recoverPhyStats();
						genM.recoverMaxState();
						genM.resetToMaxState();
						CMLib.leveler().fillOutMOB(genM,genM.basePhyStats().level());
						genM.basePhyStats().setRejuv(0);
						genM.recoverPhyStats();

						foundShortName=genM.name();
						cage = (Container)targetI;
						int x=0;
						if((x=foundShortName.lastIndexOf(' '))>=0)
							foundShortName=foundShortName.substring(x).trim().toLowerCase();
						genM.setLocation(null);
						if(genM instanceof Rideable)
						{
							if((CMLib.flags().canBreatheThis(genM, RawMaterial.RESOURCE_FRESHWATER)
								|| CMLib.flags().canBreatheThis(genM, RawMaterial.RESOURCE_SALTWATER))
							&&(!CMLib.flags().canBreatheThis(genM, RawMaterial.RESOURCE_AIR)))
								((Rideable)genM).setRideBasis(Rideable.Basis.WATER_BASED);
							else
								((Rideable)genM).setRideBasis(Rideable.Basis.LAND_BASED);
						}
						cI.cageMe(genM);
						cI.recoverPhyStats();
						genM.destroy();
						final Container C=(Container)targetI;
						if(C.capacity() - C.phyStats().weight() >= cI.phyStats().weight())
							found=cI;
						else
							cI.destroy();
					}
				}
			}
		}
		final int duration=10+mob.phyStats().level()+(super.getXTIMELevel(mob)*2);
		final CMMsg msg=CMClass.getMsg(mob,found,this,getActivityMessageType(),L("<S-NAME> set(s) an animal trap."));
		if(R.okMessage(mob,msg))
		{
			R.send(mob,msg);
			beneficialAffect(mob,R,asLevel,duration);
		}
		else
			found=null;
		return true;
	}
}

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Baird, Charles / 2013. "American Unionism and Freedom of Association." The Journal of Private Enterprise 28(2) Spring: 1-21.
Cebula, Richard J. / 2013. "Budget Deficits, Economic Freedom, and Economic Growth in OECD Nations: P2SLS Fixed-Effects Estimates, 2003–2008." The Journal of Private Enterprise 28(2) Spring: 75-96.
Schmiesing, Kevin / 2013. "Catholic Social Teaching and the Freedom of Association." The Journal of Private Enterprise 28(2) Spring: 23-38.
Miller, Stephen C. / 2009. "Economic Bias and Ideology: Evidence from the General Social Survey." The Journal of Private Enterprise 25(1) Fall: 31-49.
O'Roark, J. Brian / 2012. "Economists in Congress: How Economic Education Motivates Votes on Free Trade in Congress." The Journal of Private Enterprise 27(2) Spring: 83-101.
Kolm, Barbara / 2013. "European Corporatism and Freedom of Association." The Journal of Private Enterprise 28(2) Spring: 39-56.
Woolsey, W. William; Sheila D. Foster / 2009. "Income Tax Rates from 1913 to 2006." The Journal of Private Enterprise 25(1) Fall: 141-150.
Finkle, Todd A.; Laurence E. Blose; Reinhold P. Lam / 2005. "Insider Trading Around New Drug Approvals." The Journal of Private Enterprise 21(1) Fall: 29-45.
Hutchinson, E. Bruce; Leila J. Pratt / 2007. "Is Contracting Out Government Services the Great Panacea? Evidence from Public School Transportation in Louisiana." The Journal of Private Enterprise 23(1) Fall: 67-83.
Hebert, David J. / 2013. "Property Rights: Private or Public? Evidence from the Boston Frozen Water Trade." The Journal of Private Enterprise 28(2) Spring: 113-123.
Lee, Dwight R.; Robert D. Tollison / 2009. "Queuing, Conflict, and Violence." The Journal of Private Enterprise 25(1) Fall: 51-68.
Wenzel, Nikolai G. / 2012. "Rent-Seeking and Decline in the French Wine Industry." The Journal of Private Enterprise 27(2) Spring: 63-81.
Siems, Thomas F. / 2005. "Social Security: Tyranny of the Status Quo." The Journal of Private Enterprise 21(1) Fall: 142-156.
Bradbury, John Charles; E. Frank Stephenson / 2009. "Spatially Targeted Government Spending and Heterogeneous Constituent Cost Shares." The Journal of Private Enterprise 24(2) Spring: 75-86.
Alm, Richard; Dwight R. Lee / 2013. "The Case for Abolishing Federal Taxation." The Journal of Private Enterprise 28(2) Spring: 125-137.
Houston, Douglas A. / 2005. "The Case for Paternalism Revisited: Updating the Friedman Critique." The Journal of Private Enterprise 21(1) Fall: 105-122.
Kamath, Shyam J. / 2007. "The Concept of Equality in Nobel Laureate A. K. Sen's Work: A Critical Assessment." The Journal of Private Enterprise 23(1) Fall: 116-133.
McNamara, Joseph D. / 2011. "The Hidden Costs of America's War on Drugs." The Journal of Private Enterprise 26(2) Spring: 97-115.
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Long title I know. So your running IIS on your server and serving up websites on port 80. You also have some third party program that's running on Tomcat. Maybe like Atlassian products like Jira or Confluence. However they have to run on ports like 8088 or 8443 for SSL because TomCat can bind the port numbers but cannot use port 80 because IIS hogs that up on all your IP addresses.
Assuming your server has more then one IP you can limit IIS to only bind on a single IP and then in TomCat's config you can limit it's binding IP to the other. (Technically you're not limiting IIS you're limiting the http web protocol that IIS uses).
Show which IP Address IIS is listening/binding too with this command.
Reboot the server (You could try restarting http service but that doesn't always show up in services and it's a pain. Easier to reboot).
Run the listen command again and you should that the restricted IP is no longer in the list. You're now free to use that IP for TomCat or some other service and bind to port 80 and 443.


Harrogate is universally rated as one of the finest places to live and work in the UK. In 2006, the town was voted the fourth best to live in Britain by Channel 4. It is a lively (some might say trendy!) cosmopolitan spa town situated in the heart of the UK.
Its equidistant location from London and Edinburgh and from the east and west coasts makes it a convenient and accessible place to live and work.
Leeds/Bradford International Airport is 20 minutes away. The town's railway station connects with the main east coast railway line at York and Leeds and travellers can be in London from York in less than 2 hours.
The M1 motorway concludes less than a 30 minutes drive from Harrogate and connects with the A1 motorway to bring motorists within 15 minutes of the town.
Harrogate is renowned for its elegant buildings, landscaped gardens and bustling café culture. There are bars, restaurants and nightclubs offering a wealth of choice and variety to suit any taste. The town and its surrounding area are steeped in heritage and tradition.
The attractions draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to Harrogate every year and the outstanding beauty of the Yorkshire Dales and historic cities and towns such as York, Ripon and Knaresborough are just a short drive away.
Harrogate is famous as a shopping destination with a combination of major stores and individual boutiques. It is also a centre in the UK for antique and craft shops.
There are a number of beautiful villages in the surrounding area and the centre of the town provides an opportunity to live right in the heart of this vibrant region with a number of new developments taking place mixing in tastefully with the award-winning established properties.


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Thomas Helmer (born 21 April 1965) is a German former footballer. His preferred playing position was sweeper, but he was primarily deployed as a centre-back.

Helmer spent most of his club career with Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich – appearing in nearly 400 Bundesliga games in 15 seasons – and won the European Championship in 1996.

Club career
Born in Herford, West Germany, Helmer began his professional career with Arminia Bielefeld, playing four games late in 1984–85, in a season that ended in relegation. In the following season, he netted five goals in 35 second division matches, prompting interest from Borussia Dortmund, which signed him in 1986. A key element from the start, Helmer also scored 16 goals during his six-season stint.

In 1992, he joined FC Bayern Munich in controversial circumstances. Dortmund did not wish to sell Helmer, one of its best players, to a rival Bundesliga team, and sent him to France's Olympique Lyonnais instead. However, only three months later, Lyon sold Helmer to Bayern Munich for 7.5 million marks, at the time a record transfer fee paid by the Bavarian club. The resultant furore became so heated that German national side coach Berti Vogts threatened to drop Helmer from the UEFA Euro 92 squad because of the distraction the affair was causing.

Helmer was also an integral part (scoring seven goals in his debut season) and, eventually, captain of an ascendant Bayern Munich team of the late-1990s, winning three league titles, one cup and three League cups), adding the 1995–96 UEFA Cup, where he scored once (against FC Girondins de Bordeaux in the final's first leg) in 12 games. Defensively, the team would also include, during Helmer's stay, internationals Olaf Thon, Lothar Matthäus and Markus Babbel.

Upon leaving Bayern in 1999, Helmer opted to move to the Premier League. He was offered a contract by Liverpool, but chose instead to join newly promoted Sunderland on a free transfer. Sunderland manager Peter Reid hardly used him, however, making just two league appearances against Leeds United and Arsenal and he returned to Germany on loan with Hertha BSC. Although he had appeared in the UEFA Champions League for Hertha, upon his return to Sunderland, Reid judged that "his legs had gone", and the club bought-out his contract, with the player retiring immediately afterwards.

International career
Helmer made his full international debut for Germany on 10 October 1990, a 3–1 win in a friendly match with Sweden in Stockholm. He enjoyed great success in the UEFA European Football Championships, starting in consecutive finals. In 1992, Germany lost surprisingly to Denmark, which had been called at the last hour, but four years later went one better, defeating the Czech Republic in extra-time at Wembley.

Helmer also appeared in two FIFA World Cups, bowing out of international football in the second round clash of the 1998 edition against Mexico, when he was replaced before half-time by Christian Ziege.
He was known for tripping Josip Weber during the 1994 world cup in the penalty area but Kurt Röthlisberger, the referee, did not make a call.

Post-retirement

After retiring, Helmer worked as a sports journalist and television presenter with DSF. Additionally, he served as Germany's ambassador to children's charity "FIFA for SOS Children's Villages", first undertaking it in 1997.

Career statistics
Scores and results table. Germany's goal tally first.

Honours
Borussia Dortmund
DFB-Pokal: 1988–89
DFL-Supercup: 1989

Bayern Munich
Bundesliga: 1993–94, 1996–97, 1998–99
DFB-Pokal: 1997–98; runner-up 1998–99
DFB-Ligapokal: 1997, 1998
UEFA Cup: 1995–96
UEFA Champions League: runner-up 1998–99

Germany
UEFA European Championship: 1996; runner-up 1992
US Cup: 1993

References

External links

1965 births
Living people
People from Herford
Sportspeople from Detmold (region)
German footballers
Association football defenders
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Premier League players
Arminia Bielefeld players
Borussia Dortmund players
FC Bayern Munich footballers
Hertha BSC players
Sunderland A.F.C. players
Germany international footballers
UEFA Euro 1992 players
UEFA Euro 1996 players
1994 FIFA World Cup players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA European Championship-winning players
German expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in England
German expatriate sportspeople in England
UEFA Cup winning players
Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia
West German footballers

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Giovanni Domenico Orsi de Orsini (* 1634 in Wien; † 14. Juli 1679 in Prag) war ein böhmischer Architekt italienischer Abstammung.

Werdegang
Den größten Teil seines Lebens verbrachte der Sohn des welschen Baumeisters Giovanni Batista Orsi und dessen Frau Lucia in Böhmen. Er war seit den 1660er Jahren in Prag ansässig. Zunächst arbeitete er unter der Leitung von Carlo Lurago, später machte er sich als Baumeister selbständig und war vor allem für den Orden der Jesuiten, aber auch für andere kirchliche Institutionen und den böhmischen Adel tätig. Daneben war er auch am Bau der Prager Stadtbefestigung beteiligt und projektierte 1678 die Stadtmauern von Eger (Cheb). Er gehörte neben Francesco Caratti und Carlo Lurago zu den bedeutendsten Künstlern des Frühbarock in Böhmen.

Für die beiden Steinmetzmeister Francesco della Torre und Giovanni Battista Passerini, die 1653 aus dem kaiserlichen Steinbruch bei Wien nach Prag kamen, war er am 30. Oktober 1663 mit Domenico Rossi Bürge bei der Verleihung ihrer Prager Bürgerurkunden.

Projekte
 Clementinum (Klementinum), Prager Altstadt; 1653
 Kirche des Heiligen Ignatius (Kostel svatého Ignáce), Prager Neustadt; 1665–1670
 Nová Bystřice: Dreifaltigkeitskirche des Pauliner-Klosters; (1668–1679)
 Kloster Strahov, Theologischer Bibliothekssaal, Hradschin; 1671–1679
 Kathedrale St. Stephan, Leitmeritz; 1664–1668

Weitere Bauten
 Dům V Templu
 Ehemaliges Kloster der Dominikanerinnen (chrám sv. Anny)
 Dominikaner-Kloster (chrám sv. Jiljí)
 Ehemaliges Kloster beschuhter Karmeliter (chrám sv. Havla)
 Kloster der Kreuzritter mit dem Roten Stern (chrám sv. Fr. Serafínského)
 Ehemaliges Kloster barfüssiger Karmeliter (chrám sv. Josefa)
 Ehemaliges Studienhaus der Theatiner (chrám P. Marie Božské prozřetelnosti a sv. Kajetána)
 Ehemaliges Professorenhaus der Jesuiten
 Palais Kolowrat (Kolovratský palác)
 Palais der Herren Neuhaus
 Palais Ledebour (Ledebourský palác)
 Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Prag-Karlshof (Klášter augustiniánů kanovníků v Praze na Karlově)

Literatur

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Architekt (Tschechien)
Person (Königreich Böhmen)
Person (Habsburgermonarchie vor 1804)
Geboren 1634
Gestorben 1679
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When a young company announces that its founder is stepping down and a new chief executive is coming in, it's usually a sign of either trouble or wisdom.
Former Ford trucks executive Matt O'Leary said his recent appointment as chief executive of Motiv Power Systems, replacing founder Jim Castelaz, signals the latter – the wisdom of an entrepreneurial founder.
Motiv founder and former Chief Executive Castelaz – also an engineer – will transition to chief technology officer for the Foster City, Calif., company. He'll be working on new products and improvements aimed at expanding its line of electric chassis for medium-duty trucks.
O'Leary retired from Ford in late 2015 after 38 years, which included stints as director of corporate strategy and director for truck, SUV and commercial vehicle programs. He joined Motiv's board a year later.
Shortly after his appointment as chief executive, O'Leary demonstrated the power of his Ford connections: a deal to boost Motiv's production potential by having its electric truck chassis built in the same Detroit Chassis plant as Ford's medium-duty internal combustion chassis.
He sat down with Trucks.com to discuss his hopes for the burgeoning company. Here's an edited version of that interview.
What do you have planned for Motiv? Anything beyond the electric chassis?
As customers start to experience EVs, they want to do more things with them. They'll want more on the telematics side. They'll want more on the security side; not just in terms of the security of the truck itself but the security of the data. They're going to want different kinds of accessories. There's a lot of room to play here as commercial vehicles gear up to go electric.
Electric vehicles and vehicle autonomy seem to go hand-in-hand. Any plans there?
I think our technology is a strong base for an autonomous vehicle. It's not a core competence of ours now, but it would make logical sense to partner with somebody in that space.
Ford's medium-duty platforms are the basis for Motiv's electric chassis. Any plans to use other OEMs?
We are talking to other OEMs. But Ford is the leader in the medium-duty commercial market space, so we're happy to start with them and build from there. There are other things in the works as well. We just announced our partnership with BMW to supply us with lithium ion batteries, and you'll see more product coming based on those batteries.
I can't say yet, but the thing that's great about Motiv's technology is that we're battery-agnostic. As new batteries come along that have application in the commercial market, we can pair those up with the right motor and the right accessories to meet specific customer needs.
You retired then joined Motiv's board and now are full-time CEO. That's not much of a retirement.
I said that if an opportunity presented itself and it seemed like the right fit, I would jump in. I was really passionate about zero-emission trucks, and when Jim called to ask me to join the board I said yes. I've got a lot I could bring to the party in terms of understanding the commercial truck customer.
You ran programs like Ford's F-150 and the Expedition SUV. Where's the EV passion come from?
Back in the 1990s, when California's zero-emissions mandate first came out, we started developing an electric truck at Ford. The program was dropped when the rules changed, but we wanted to keep EV technology progressing, so I worked on a project to electrify walk-in vans.
Those never were produced, were they?
We didn't quite get the technology in place. But when Jim called me about Motiv, he was asking me to pick up a great idea I'd had 25 years earlier.
Was the chance to get back to electric trucks the only attraction?
No. I thought Jim's strategy of going after commercial vehicles in the medium-truck market, with a very flexible product, put Motiv in a space nobody else was playing in. And I thought he had the right strategy, the right idea, and I was really impressed with the technology that he brought to the table.
You're not concerned that the big-truck makers will decide to jump in with their own electrics?
It's a decent-sized market, but there's not enough volume for the big (manufacturers). We're doing a lot of little applications, and the OEMs aren't geared up for that.
Motiv has depended largely on grant programs and pilot projects. Is that changing?
Revenues were pretty much grant-based, but we flipped in 2018 and now are driven by sales. And next year it'll all come from the vehicle side of things. The space that we're at now is pilot programs with a lot of the larger fleets. They'll start with orders of maybe five or 10, and when they get confident the orders jump to 50, 100, 150. FedEx wants to spend $750 million on electrification in the next few years, and we intend to take a part of that.
FedEx was an early pilot project customer. Any other big fleets signing on now?
We have a pilot with the Postal Service, and we sell to AmeriPride, a subsidiary of Aramark. We've been putting vehicles out for the last few years, and we are now talking to some very big fleets. We're in a really good position.
Motiv's chassis now carry a 30 percent premium. Can you see a time incentives aren't needed?
Within the next year, based on our higher-volume lithium ion batteries and some of the cost reduction we've been doing on our own electronics, we'll be in a position to present a product that pays back without incentives.
Motiv's 10 years old. Why the management changes now?
This is just augmenting the team. It gives Jim a chance to focus more on the future, so we continue to build our competitive advantage, look at new technologies, partner with new technology leaders, and build a future for Motiv. Jim got us here in our first 10 years; now it's his job to lay the path for the next five to 10 years. My job is to focus on daily operations and drive growth.
Electric powertrain developer Motiv Power Systems is poised to accelerate business in the medium-duty segment as truck electrification takes off.


Beautiful sunny Saturday here. Let's stop on Martha's Vineyard and visit this grand summer house built by Hutker Architects and decorated by Jerry Twetten and Michael Van Valkenburgh.
The entrance courtyard. Landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh used native trees and plants.
Beautiful deck to sit back and enjoy.
In the great room, "a timber frame composed of a series of arch forms was made by cutting and integrating curved trees into the assembly," says the architect.
A lantern purchased in Paris hangs in the cedar-and-glass conservatory, which links the adjacent great room to the landscape facing the ocean and can be used all year. The limestone floor allows easy plant maintenance—it can be soaked with water.
Located in the guest wing, the recreation room's exposed timbers, wide-plank floors and weathered paneling suggest a converted barn. A secret door, disguised as a bookcase and built on a steel frame to swing open effortlessly, reveals an art studio, a powder room and stairs to a loft.
To take full advantage of the sun and views of the 15-acre property, the master bedroom was located at the front of the residence.
A pergola marks the western edge of the pool courtyard and leads to the living areas of the main house.
All of the guest rooms have shed roofs and exposed-stud structure. Collections from beach trips and visits to yard sales are displayed in shelves and top ledges in a guest room.
Hidden behind a fieldstone fireplace, an outdoor path leads to the beach.
What a palace! Breathtaking. That living is so cool, so impressive and peaceful. Amazing house in an amazing place (Martha's Vineyard).
Have a great weekend, I'll go dreaming about this home for sure!
Hi Kifus... e che dire di questa casa ?
Bellissima casa ma non per noi !! Sigh..
Ho amato molto le strutture in legno dei soffitti e dei pavimenti !


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Walkability Throwdown
/ Robin
C'mon Snarkmatrix — whatcha got? Can your neighborhood's walk score beat Cole Valley's astonishing 97?
August 9, 2007 / Uncategorized
My current digs rate a 94, but I plugged in an address in Center City Philadelphia (18th and Delancey) and scored a cool 100.
My 'hood scores 91. But what about the bikeability index?
Gavin says…
My neighborhood got a 66, which, as a mid-Michigan city, was better than I expected. (My last apartment in the area scored a 46.) The New Community co-op, however? 88.
conor says…
I dare someone to get lower than me – my pad in hollywood gets a TWELVE.
Brandon says…
Kensington, Brooklyn, scores a 75, which might as well be 15 if you live in New York City. This would be exactly why I'm moving to a more hopping part of the BK in October.
Um, yeah, Cole Valley looks cute. But my neighborhood's solid 98 kinda speaks for the virtues of Minneapolis. If only a major media organization were to take up digs next door, I'd never look at a wheel again.
My sympathies to conor. My current apartment gets a 91, which is pretty damn amazing for Los Angeles.
Jade Buddha says…
The Lost Temple, which currently resides just west of Waikiki, rocks a pleasant 91. I feel this score, however, should be lower, as it fails the take into account the murderous disregard for traffic laws possessed by drivers in Honolulu.
My newish place on Main Street in the 'Nati scores a 92, which is a little misleading… e.g., "Mercy Housing Laundromat" is listed under "grocery stores" and the offices of the Cincinnati Arts Administration are counted as a movie theatre.
But the theatre where I'll be resident designer this year scores a fairly legit 97, and it's just a few blocks away from my place.
quirk says…
My hood hits 89, which is surprisingly low considering I rarely have to leave the surrounding 10 blocks for anything. But like Brandon says, anything under 95 should probably be considered a weak score in NYC.
brainwidth says…
The intersection near my house scores a cool 8. Of course, it's a brand new subdivision with limited commercial development thus far.
(I love how it's all relative. "90? Yeah, maybe that's a good score in Texas, but in Brooklyn we're looking for 95 and ABOVE, pal.")
I got a 91 in downtown Sacramento — but it doesn't seem to account for the fact that it's also only a 10-block walk to my job. I bet distance-from-work would change all these scores …
At least as far as I can tell, they also don't measure distance to transit. My friend's house in West Philadelphia and my parents' house in the Detroit suburbs might both be a quarter-mile from a neighborhood commercial corridor, but if there's a bus, trolley, and train connecting one to the city center but not the other, they hardly have the same functional walkability.
Brooklyn -> 98


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Arlington County has a number of programs designed to recognize its most outstanding trees, for the purposes of rewarding owners for maintaining them, encouraging owners to continue to do so, and for generally increasing public awareness of trees for their beauty and their benefits to the environment. Tree Steward John Wingard works with the County primarily on the Notable Tree Program through the Arlington Beautification Committee. He prepared the attached summary of these programs for a recent Tree Steward class, and it is posted on this website for future reference by Tree Stewards and the public.
In addition, Arlington County Forester Vincent Verveij recently developed an interactive map of the County's current Champion, Notable and Significant Trees. This is a very handy tool for Tree Stewards and the public to easily identify recognized trees in their respective areas. It will assist in identifying whether a tree is already recognized in some way before it is nominated for Champion or Notable Tree status. Find the map at http://gis.arlingtonva.us/gallery/index.html, and it's the fourth map in the rows.
Circumference in inches + height in feet + 1/4 average crown spread in feet.
Awards presented by County Board at a meeting in April, as approved by the Arlington Beautification Committee.
Nominations from public may be submitted to County at any time (see nomination form on website for address), but there is a specific solicitation for public nominations in the fall.
Award status protects tree from removal or injury without approval, subject to exceptions provided in the ordinance. $2500 fine for violation of ordinance.
Trees may be nominated by the public at any time. See nomination forms on Co. website.
Not an "official" program, but you may run into this term. This is a purely administrative term and database created and maintained by County Natural Resources Specialist Greg Zell.
What Can Tree Stewards Do About These Programs?
Familiarize yourselves with the programs above and the lists of the various kinds of trees on the County website.
Be alert for potential Champion and Notable Trees as you go about your activities in the County. Be particularly alert for unusual native species, since these are more rarely nominated.
If you see a tree that you think has potential as a Champion or Notable Tree, consult the applicable list and determine the relative sizes of the trees of the applicable species on the list.
Email me at my address at the top of this document, providing the specific address of the tree, its location on the property and the probable species, and I will also check out the tree to see if it is suitable for nomination.
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Energy / S&P 500 ratio nearing an important inflection point once again. Does it fail again or is the third time the charm?
$XLE $SPY pic.twitter.com/krK8QXTelM
— Matthew Timpane, CMT (@mtimpane) January 13, 2022
Today's Chart of the Day was shared by Matthew Timpane (@mtimpane). It's a ratio chart of the Energy Sector vs. the S&P 500 over the past six years ($XLE/$SPY). Energy has been the worst-performing sector over the past 3, 5, and 10 years. However, the long-term trend of underperformance has been in the process of reversing over the past year or so. It was the best performing sector in 2021, gaining more than 50%, and it has continued to outperform by a wide margin in the new year. It's already up more than 13% in the first two weeks of 2022, while the S&P is down about 2%. Matthew points out that this ratio is currently testing an important resistance level after forming a bottoming pattern known as an inverse head & shoulders. If it does break out here, it would be further confirmation that a long-term trade change is truly underway.
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Home Headlines Donald Duke Wins SDP Presidential Primaries
Donald Duke Wins SDP Presidential Primaries
TOPE FAYEHUN
Former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has won the presidential primary election of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Duke who governed Cross River between 1999 and 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), polled 812 votes to get the ticket.
The former governor who defected from the PDP to pursue his presidential ambition recently , defeated his close rival, former Minister of Information, Jerry Gana, who polled 611 votes at the party's National Convention held at Old Parade Ground, Abuja.
While officially declaring Duke the winner of the exercise, the Chief Returning Officer, Abdul Isiaq said ,said John Dara, former Special Assistant to Gen.T.Y. Danjuma, former defence minister, scored 104 votes.
Announcing result at the early hour of Sunday, Isiaq declared that former ambassador and former minister, Iyorwuese Hagher, polled 72 votes ,while a former ambassador, Felix Osakwe scored 10 votes.
The Chief Returning Officer, also announced 63 votes as invalid votes .
In his acceptance speech, Donald Duke who thanked the delegates for choosing him as the presidential candidate of the party, also described his emergence as a collective victory for all aspirants that participated in the contest.
The SDP presidential candidate noted that the primary was just a step in the contest, assuring the members of the party of a robust campaign across the country which will equally sell the party and it's polices to citizens.
He ,however, called for the support of all aspirants, the party officials and Nigerians to win 2019 general election, saying "we will reawaken in Nigerians that yearning that we are destined to be, but we cannot do this alone."
He said that Nigeria was not a divided nation but a country of common purpose.
His words "What divides us is inadequacy and wants, because in the face of this survival of the fittest comes in, which ought not to be so because there is more than enough for everyone.
"If Nigerians were productive and abide by rules and regulations , the nation would grow from strength to strength.This is what good governance is all about and that is what I stand for."
However, the National Chairman of the party, Chief Olu Falae, said the party represents a renewed hope and a refined and genuine symbol of progress for the country.
Falae who addressed the party delegates earlier ,averred that SDP is the Party of the moment and the pillar that will rescue Nigeria and restore peace, ensure justice, assure progress and development.
According to Falae, the state of the nation and the plight of our fellow
countrymen and women are abysmally poor and it has never been this bad in this country.
He said "Today, we have a Government that is unable to guarantee the security of lives and properties; unable to keep the youths and women gainfully employed; unable to provide welfare or means of livelihood for citizens, unable to provide basic or strategic infrastructure for its
people; unable to manage the economy for sustainable development and unable to contain the pervasive crippling corruption at all levels fuelled by growing poverty and unemployment.
"Today, fellow citizens, we have a Government that has been unable to stop massive injection money into the electoral process.
"Today, unabating violence and killings have led Nigeria to the edge of the precipice and our nation is divided and polarised to a degree we have never seen before.
"Nigerians have helplessly watched as those they elected into offices demonstrate on a daily basis ineffective and incompetent leadership that engenders social and food insecurity, lawlessness, impunity, insurgency, widespread corruption, nepotism and poverty."
Falae who urged Nigerians to return to politics where the welfare of the people is the central theme of social democracy, maintained that "We must return to the stage where emphasis is on party manifesto, integrity, performance and service to the nation."
His words, "We must halt the disgraceful spread of political monetization in our country. The so-called major parties which have ruled Nigeria for nearly twenty years have been tried and but have failed.
"Now Nigeria needs to be rescued. Our party, the Social Democratic Party, SDP is prepared and ready for the rescue mission.
"As a political party, we are determined to work with the Nigerian people to ensure the emergence of a new, credible and stable political process, engineered to harvest the beauty of democracy, offer good governance, and produce genuine development.
"SDP is built on the solid ideology of Social Democracy; anchored on social justice, human dignity, fairness, equity, and inclusiveness.
"Our party's ideology includes a shared prosperity with the imperative of democracy; and the security of peace with justice.
"The philosophy of Social Democracy places a great premium on the dignity of the human person and the sanctity of human life. "
Also, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, the Chairman, National Convention Central Planning Committee, said the reality confronting the people today was that they made a wrong choice in 2015 and the hope they placed in the APC and the President was a total misplaced.
Adeniran noted that at no time in the almost two decades of this democratic dispensation has the issue of threats to our national stability and indeed the Nigerian union, generated such concern and widespread anxiety among the people.
According to him, " It is important for us to note that the present precarious state of the nation has some correlation with what it was some three decades and three years ago.
" The siege was laid on our democracy in the past few weeks by the agents of the state could as well be rightly said to be reminiscent of that unpopular totalitarian era as a military ruler.
" The SDP, as people – driven and the legacy-conscious party is committed to building and bequeathing a great Nigeria nation to succeeding generation ."
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Studio zone
Thirty-mile zone (TMZ)
The intersection at the center of the studio zone: West Beverly Blvd and North La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles
Location of the center of the TMZ in Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34°04′33″N 118°22′36″W / 34.075833°N 118.376667°W / 34.075833; -118.376667
In the American entertainment industry, the studio zone, also known as the thirty-mile zone (TMZ), is the area traditionally marked roughly around a 30-mile (48 km) radius from the intersection of West Beverly Boulevard and North La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The exact boundaries of the studio zone have changed over the years, but the present 30-mile radius includes almost all of the southern half of Los Angeles County, as well as parts of eastern Ventura County and northwestern Orange County.
Entertainment industry labor unions use the studio zone to determine rates, work rules, and work compensation for union workers. For example, within this area, entertainment works are considered "local" and workers are generally responsible to pay for their own transportation, meals, and other compensation; those outside the zone are considered "on location" and the studios are generally expected to pay for these things.[1]
During most of the 20th century, the Hollywood entertainment industry preferred to film movies and television shows within the studio zone to reduce labor costs. Thus, the zone largely determined the location and success of the original movie ranches in or near Hollywood. By establishing movie ranches around the periphery of the zone, studios could take advantage of Los Angeles's varied landscape.[1] With clever editing, it was easy to use a few aerial and location shots (usually shot by a second unit), along with carefully dressed sets, to give viewers the impression that a movie or show was set elsewhere.
The studio zone itself, as well as the lack of motion picture production companies and experienced personnel outside the zone, made it expensive to film on location, since movie studios had to bring everything needed from Los Angeles. In turn, anyone who wanted to start a career in the entertainment industry had to move to Los Angeles to break into the studio zone.
The studio zone's boundaries have expanded over the years, primarily to keep labor costs down and help keep Los Angeles as an attractive site to shoot productions. The studio zone was formally first established in 1934, originally defined as a 6-mile (9.7 km) radius from Rossmore Avenue and 5th Street. By 1970, the center of the zone became Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards, the then-headquarters of the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), and expanded to a 30-mile radius.[1]
In addition to the traditional 30-mile radius from Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards, the studio zone also includes some locations that technically lie outside the area, such as the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Conejo Ranch near Thousand Oaks in Ventura County, and Castaic Lake in northwest Los Angeles County.[2]
In 2010, additional locations were added: Agua Dulce, the entire community of Castaic (in addition to Castaic Lake), Leo Carrillo State Park, Moorpark, Ontario International Airport, Piru, and Pomona (including the Fairplex of which a small portion is jurisdictionally in La Verne).[3][4] With respect to the locations added in 2010, producers are required to grant reasonable requests to actors for hotel accommodations if the locations listed above lie over four miles outside of the original thirty mile zone.[5] Locations rejected in negotiations included adding Lancaster and Port Hueneme to the zone.[6] The addition of Pomona to the studio zone has led to an increase in filming in that city.[7]
Since the 1990s, many countries and other US states have offered generous tax credits or deductions to offset the much higher cost of filming on location. The result was what Hollywood people call runaway production. Places such as New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada have become popular—and cheaper—alternatives to filming in Los Angeles and New York City.[8]
The initials of the WarnerMedia-owned tabloid news website TMZ.com stand for "Thirty Mile Zone", an alternative name for the studio zone.[9]
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^ a b c Roland, Zelda (March 10, 2016). "Studio Labor and the Origins of Hollywood's Thirty-Mile Zone, or TMZ". KCET. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
^ "Los Angeles Studio Zone Map". Entertainment Partners. Retrieved September 20, 2012. This site also states that the Long Beach Dome is "considered to be in the studio zone", but the designation is redundant for this specific location, as it lies within the 30-mile radius.
^ IATSE/AMPTP Deal: 2% Wage Increases and First-Time Ever Health Premiums - The Hollywood Reporter
^ Sagaftra.org
^ Business Representative | IA.T.S.E. Local 80
^ Land of Lincoln comes to Pomona via Hollywood
^ Christine (February 21, 2011). "Tuesday, Feb. 22: Filming Locations in Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, NYC, & more including 'Ides of March', 'Supernatural', 'Blue Bloods', & more". OnLocationVaction.com.
^ "Slanguage Dictionary". Variety.
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Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez ordered two Brooklyn school districts yesterday to submit plans to correct problems in their bilingual education programs by Feb. 2. Failure to do so, he warned, would lead to his taking over the programs.
In letters to the presidents of Community School Board 14 in the Williamsburg-Greenpoint area and Board 22 in Sheepshead Bay, Mr. Fernandez expressed ''grave concern'' about the districts' failure to comply with Federal and board mandates.
''It is clear, even from a brief review, that there is a history of failure to comply with Board of Education policy and legal requirements on the part of your district,'' Mr. Fernandez wrote.
The Chancellor said the districts had failed to test students who might be in need of language assistance, had not provided programs for many students who were eligible and had not filed required reports with the central Board of Education on how the districts were correcting past problems.
For Mr. Fernandez, who took office this month, the move continued the aggressive stance he has taken in reviewing - and overruling in some cases -the actions of the city's local schools boards. He has already removed one local superintendent, blocked the appointment of another and dismissed some principals.
Mr. Fernandez's spokesman, James S. Vlasto, said yesterday's action reflected Mr. Fernandez's policy of accountability and the importance of the monitoring office he has established under his reorganization plan. Whereas each Board of Education division once had its own monitoring unit, Mr. Vlasto said the new office would report directly to Mr. Fernandez.
The action was applauded by Dr. Luis O. Reyes, deputy director for research and advocacy of Aspira of New York, a Puerto Rican community organization that, as a plaintiff in a Federal court suit in the early 1970's and a party in a consent decree, helped bring about procedures and programs for bilingual education in city schools.
Dr. Reyes, who gave Mr. Fernandez a list of a dozen districts not in compliance with the consent decree, including Boards 14 and 22, said that if the Chancellor were to supersede the community school boards in the area of bilingual education, it would be significant in two ways.
On Wednesday, at a time of municipal belt-tightening, Mr. Fernandez proposed a budget increase of $483 million to hire more than a thousand new teachers and guidance counselors and to repair deteriorating schools.
Monitors from the Division of Multilingual and Multicultural Education visited schools in Districts 14 and 22 last October.
In his letter to Board 22, Mr. Fernandez summarized instances of ''serious noncompliance'' dating to 1987, including failure to try to recruit bilingual teachers to expand programs and failure to explain programs to parents in their native tongue.
Some 208 students were not tested for language ability, the Chancellor went on, and 124 students with limited English proficiency were not receiving a mandated bilingual program or a course in English as a second language.
In his letter to Board 14, he noted that 438 bilingual students had not been tested and 460 with limited English proficiency were not receiving help under a program. Nor were the district's bilingual programs expanded, despite noncompliances cited during the 1988-89 school year, Mr. Fernandez said.
In addition the Chancellor said both District 14 and 22 had failed to file reports with the Board of Education in December on the number of students with limited English proficiency and the types of programs available.
Superintendent John Comer of District 22, reached at home last night, declined to comment. Superintendent William A. Rodgers of District 14 could not be reached at his office and did not return a call to his home.
In his memo to Mr. Fernandez listing districts not in compliance, Dr. Reyes named District 2 in Manhattan, Districts 9, 10 and 12 in the Bronx, 15 in Brooklyn and 24, 27 amd 28 in Queens.